Movie: "Kagemusha"

Release Date: Oct 1980 Genres: War / History / Drama Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 19 wins & 3 nominations Runtime: 162 min Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai (Shingen Takeda, Kagemusha), Tsutomu Yamazaki (Nobukado Takeda), Ken'ichi Hagiwara (Katsuyori Takeda) Jinpachi Nezu (Sohachiro Tsuchiya) Hideji Ôtaki (Masakage Yamagata) Daisuke Ryû (Nobunaga Oda) Masayuki Yui (Ieyasu Tokugawa) Kaori Momoi (Otsuyanokata) Mitsuko Baishô (Oyunokata) Hideo Murota (Nobufusa Baba) Takayuki Shiho (Masatoyo Naito) Kôji Shimizu (Katsusuke Atobe) Noboru Shimizu (Masatane Hara) Sen Yamamoto (Nobushige Oyamada) Shuhei Sugimori (Masanobu Kosaka) Kota Yui (Takemaru) Yasuhito Yamanaka (Ranmaru Mori) Kumeko Otowa (Takemaru's Nurse) Tetsuo Yamashita (Nagahide Niwa) Kai Ato (Zenjiro Amemiya) Takashi Ebata (Monk) Hiroshi Shimada (Jingoro Hara) Yutaka Shimaka (Jingoro Hara) Toshiaki Tanabe (Kugutsushi) Yoshimitsu Yamaguchi (Salt Vendor) Eiichi Kanakubo (Kenshin Uesugi) Akihiko Sugizaki (Noda Castle Soldier) Yugo Miyazaki () Masatsuga Kuriyama () Norio Matsui (Tadatsugu Sakai) Jirô Chiba ((as Jiro Yabuki)) Yasushi Doshida (Kazumasa Ishikawa) Takashi Watanabe () Nobaru Sone (Heihachiro Honda (as Nori Sone)) Eihachi Ito () Senkichi Ômura () Takashi Shimura (Gyobu Taguchi) Kamatari Fujiwara (Doctor) Shû Nakajima () Francis Selleck (Priest (as Francis Seleck))

Storyline

In 1572, there is a civil war in Japan, and three powerful clans, leaded by the lords Shingen Takeda (Tatsuya Nakadai), Nobunaga Oda (Daisuke Ryu) and Ieyasu Tokugawa (Masayuki Yui), dispute the conquest of Kyoto. When Shingen is mortally wounded, the Takeda clan hides the incident and uses a poor thief to be the double of the strategist Shingen and keep the respect of their enemies. Along the years, Kagemusha incorporates the spirit of the warrior of the dead warlord.